On 06/13/2013 10:37 AM, Matt D wrote:
On 06/13/2013 08:22 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/13/2013 12:18 AM, Matt D wrote:
Hey,
line 202: self.logfile.write('%s,'%(str(f))) d
does put the comma in properly but,
line 203: self.logfile.write('\n')
was putting the newl
On 06/13/2013 12:32 PM, Matt D wrote:
On 06/13/2013 11:23 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/13/2013 10:37 AM, Matt D wrote:
On 06/13/2013 08:22 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/13/2013 12:18 AM, Matt D wrote:
Hey,
line 202: self.logfile.write('%s,'%(str(f))) d
does put th
On 06/13/2013 01:21 PM, jessica peters wrote:
Hi
I'm about 2 yrs into studying Python - started with "Hello World", and I'm
working with v 2.5.1 right now. The past year I've begun trying to write my own
interactive fiction. That works pretty well, but now I'm attempting to put some music
i
On 06/13/2013 11:55 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Alan Gauld
That's a dodgy way to solve the problem since if you change IDE or run the
program outside the IDE that startup script will likely get forgotten and
not be used. Remember you are not expected to use
an IDE for anything other than developing
On 06/14/2013 10:48 AM, Matt D wrote:
Hey,
here is a snip of my code.
#logger code--
# first new line
#self.logfile.write('\n')
# date and time
#self.logfile.write('%s,'%(str(strftime("%
On 06/14/2013 03:59 PM, Matt D wrote:
On 06/14/2013 03:14 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/14/2013 10:48 AM, Matt D wrote:
Hey,
here is a snip of my code.
#logger code--
# first new line
#self.logfile.write('\n')
#
On 06/14/2013 11:43 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 13 June 2013 21:53, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/13/2013 11:55 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Alan Gauld
This is for my own convenience on my own machine. As a former webmaster I'm
of course used to idiot-proofing anything released into the wild so
On 06/14/2013 03:09 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Of course, the real consideration, for those thinking of programming as a
career path, is whether programmers will be as obsolete at gaslighters in
twenty years - or will they be doing some sort of weird meta-programming?
You mean you don't write
On 06/14/2013 05:43 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 14/06/13 19:34, Jim Mooney wrote:
I'm probably going to hear that's already been done, too ;')
Not in 3D to my knowledge but visual programming for sure.
One example was ObjectVision from Borland on the PC. It lacked a loop
construct because it was
On 06/15/2013 06:23 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 14 June 2013 08:23, Dotan Cohen wrote:
What are these two string-formatting styles called?
'%.3f' % x
'{0:.3f}'.format(x)
The first one is a string Expression, using % as the overloaded operat
On 06/15/2013 08:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 16/06/13 07:55, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 15/06/13 20:54, Jim Mooney wrote:
I just like to avoid typing all those odd little-finger characters.
The dictionaries are the worst.
I think your making it harder than it is.
Just use the result as you wo
On 06/15/2013 09:30 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
##This is puzzling me. If I check the equality of 0, None, empty
string, and empty list with False,
##only zero satisfies the equality. But if I use them in a not
statement, they all turn out False.
##What gives?
#Using C:\Python33\python.exe on Win 7 in
On 06/15/2013 10:21 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 15 June 2013 19:03, Dave Angel wrote:
Why such a convoluted way of expressing yourself?
I was demonstrating the parallelism, but let's just take one so I can
unbefuddle meself ;')
*** Python 3.3.2 32 bit (Intel)] on win32. ***
'&#
On 06/15/2013 11:53 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 15 June 2013 20:48, Joel Goldstick wrote:
One and zero for True and False may seem not quite right today,
I still think they should be taken out and shot ;')
But my simplification plan failed. Equality always fails for different
types, and 'not i
On 06/16/2013 01:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 16/06/13 11:53, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/15/2013 08:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
for key in sorted(mydict.keys()):
...
works fine.
[...]
The sort() method doesn't work, but sorted does.
[...]
for key in sorted(mydict
On 06/16/2013 01:40 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
Thank you. So would it be clear if I were to say "I prefer
printf-style formatting over the format method."?
I'd be careful there, since method is an English word as well as a Pyth
On 06/16/2013 01:20 PM, Timo wrote:
I have a datafile which is parsed by an external library, I'm having
trouble creating a hierarchical structure of the data.
This is what I got so far:
items = get_items() # returns a generator
for item in items:
print(item)
children = get_children(i
On 06/16/2013 01:21 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
My first impression of Python was that it had dynamic types but didn't
mix them. so if I was wrong on equality, is there a general rule of
what different types can still be equal? Is it an inheritance thing?
Several other good replies, but I'll give my
On 06/16/2013 04:26 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
'''I'm using general Exception to print out what the exception is
until I learn them, but
it will print out "[Errno 2] No such file or directory" in this case,
when the real
exception I'd need to use in an except clause is FileNotFoundError.
How do I get
On 06/16/2013 08:04 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 16 June 2013 16:41, Dave Angel wrote:
But if you have some other reason to do it your way, then just look at the
type of err.
print( type(err), err)
Yes, that's what I was looking for. It's just a learning tool to see
the exceptions w
On 06/17/2013 01:36 PM, Matt D wrote:
Hey,
I wrote some simple code to write data to a logfile and it works pretty
well (thanks guys). Now my problem is that every time i run the program
the old logfile.txt is overwritten. I need to be able to stop and start
the program without overwriting, or
On 06/17/2013 05:17 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 17 June 2013 11:30, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
The help() function in the interactive interpreter is a good tool hunt for
help on features of functions and classes. For example:
I tripped on Python help a couple of times, since I'm used
.
Well, although I would like to see my name in lights, I didn't
discover it, Dave did, so that would be dishonest ;')
http://bugs.python.org/issue18249
filed at 8:55 pm
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On 06/18/2013 09:41 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
In general, definitely not. A class can define just about anything in
its __str
On 06/19/2013 02:50 AM, Jack Little wrote:
I compiled a program in python, but the second I open it, there is a flash of
the error, but then the cmd window closes.
It compiles when you run it, so it's not clear what extra step you're
describing here.
Quite a bit of missing information here
On 06/19/2013 06:58 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 19/06/13 17:41, Jim Mooney wrote:
you should use forward slashes. I have no idea why Bill Gates thought
backslashes were kewl
Because MS DOS was copying CP/M which didn't have directory paths
(it was used with 180K floppy disks that stored everythi
On 06/19/2013 06:58 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 19/06/13 17:41, Jim Mooney wrote:
you should use forward slashes. I have no idea why Bill Gates thought
backslashes were kewl
Because MS DOS was copying CP/M which didn't have directory paths
(it was used with 180K floppy disks that stored everythi
On 06/21/2013 02:21 AM, Arijit Ukil wrote:
I have following random number generation function
def rand_int ():
rand_num = int(math.ceil (random.random()*1000))
return rand_num
I like to make the value of rand_num (return of rand_int) static/
unchanged after first call even if it is ca
On 06/22/2013 05:01 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
I need to convert a series of digits like 060713 to a string so I can
make it look like a date 06-07-13.
Where is this series of digits coming from? Is it in the source code,
or in a file, or coming from the user, or what? If it's in source code,
a
On 06/22/2013 07:03 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
On 06/22/2013 05:10 PM, David Rock wrote:
* Jim Byrnes [2013-06-22 16:01]:
I need to convert a series of digits like 060713 to a string so I can
make it look like a date 06-07-13.
>>> a = 060713
>>> a[:2]
Traceback (most recent call last):
Fil
On 06/23/2013 02:18 AM, Jack Little wrote:
I am trying to use random.choice for a text based game. I am using windows 7,
64-bit python. Here is my code:
def lvl2():
print "COMMANDER: Who should you train with?"
trn=random.choice(1,2)
if trn==1:
lvl2_1()
print "S
On 06/23/2013 12:43 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
On 06/22/2013 06:24 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/22/2013 07:03 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
On 06/22/2013 05:10 PM, David Rock wrote:
* Jim Byrnes [2013-06-22 16:01]:
I need to convert a series of digits like 060713 to a string so I can
make it look like a
On 06/17/2013 02:20 PM, Lukáš Němec wrote:
Or even better, use python moto, dont re-invent the wheel, so use built
in library logging, read the docs for it, or if you want, I can send you
some examples how to work it, it takes some time to figure out properly...
But what he's doing has
On 06/24/2013 04:12 AM, John Steedman wrote:
Hi Tutors,
I'm confused by the following possible contradiction. Would someone please
explain or point me to the right docs.
FACT 1
"Variables in python hold references to objects."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_syntax_and_semantics
FACT 2
On 06/24/2013 05:39 PM, Matt D wrote:
But what he's doing has nothing to do with logging. He's just using
that word.
Right, I'm not doing a debugging thing. Just trying to create a log of
data that has been passed into the display of this program. Since I
started trying to use the array t
On 06/24/2013 09:48 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
For some reason I took the impression that you could split expressions
over lines. However, this works:
word = 'spam'
new_word = word + 'eggs'
print(word)
But this is a syntax error:
word = 'spam'
new_word = word +
'eggs'
print(word)
That's easy to
On 06/26/2013 08:32 PM, Jack Little wrote:
I have a small problem with the while function.It prints an odd variable
What variable is that?
that has nothing to do with the function. It prints "Squad One!". Here is my
code for the 3 def's that have something to do with the while function.
On 06/27/2013 09:27 AM, Jack Little wrote:
In my game, I am trying to make it so when the enemy's health equals 0, the
player advances. I used a while statement and a true or false variable. When
the enemy health is less than or equal to 0, the program exits the while
statement. It does not wo
On 06/27/2013 10:55 AM, Matt D wrote:
On 06/27/2013 10:36 AM, Matt D wrote:
You asked about a "save-as" feature. Why isn't that as simple as
copying the current contents of the saved csv file? Or do you not know
how you would go about copying?
Hi. So I have the logger working, meaning t
On 06/27/2013 12:33 PM, Matt D wrote:
I forgot to mention i have the 'with open(mypath, "a") as f: commented
out because it was making an indentation error that i could not fix.
It was indented, and should not have been. The extra indentation
FOLLOWS the with statement, it's not correc
On 06/27/2013 05:09 PM, Matt D wrote:
On 06/27/2013 12:54 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 06/27/2013 12:33 PM, Matt D wrote:
I forgot to mention i have the 'with open(mypath, "a") as f: commented
out because it was making an indentation error that i could not fix.
It wa
On 06/27/2013 07:39 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 27 June 2013 05:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Unit tests are great, but the learning curve is rather steep. I recommend that
you start with doctests.
I tried a simple one and it worked, but a puzzlement. Does it Only
test what you've hard-coded?
P
On 06/27/2013 09:32 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 27 June 2013 17:05, Dave Angel
Nope. it is limited to the tests you write. And those tests are necessarily
fairly simple.
Hmm, so it seems a lot of trouble for a few hardcoded tests I could
run myself from the IDE interpreter window.
NO
On 06/28/2013 07:27 AM, Matt D wrote:
As for the shutil.copy() function, how complex can it be? It takes two
file names, source and destination. It does not need a with statement
since it wants strings, not file handles.
You might get into trouble on some OS's with the source file already
o
On 06/28/2013 12:06 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
def foo(x):
... if x:
... return True
... return False
I'll leave it to you to work out why that works. It's very handy!
Hey, it saves typing an "else" and as you know, I'm the Lazy Typist.
My program to make dicts, lists, etc from a
On 06/28/2013 08:04 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 28/06/13 22:25, Matt D wrote:
Python UI. I have a thread that waits on new data and when it comes in
it gets displayed in TextCtrl fields. every time this happens my logger
puts those values into a text file one row at a time.
this how i open and
On 06/29/2013 12:32 AM, Kirk Bailey wrote:
ok, some months back I wrote about the program I wrote to perform the
office of being a robot radio station in my windows desktop PC. well, I
got it done and posted the program FOR WINDOWS on this list, and shut up.
Then I got interested in the Raspberr
On 06/29/2013 08:26 AM, Matt D wrote:
Matt probably read somewhere about an interface like
tempfile.TemporaryFile
where the file has no explicit name, and will be deleted from disk, and
the space reused as soon as it is closed.
I don't believe he's using such an interface, however.
Yes
On 06/29/2013 06:36 PM, Phil wrote:
Thank you for reading this.
You should be telling us some things. I'll guess for you:
You're using Python 3.3 with Qt for a gui, and Linux 12.04 for an OS.
I'm attempting to access the GUI widgets. The buttonClicked slot does
what I want but I'd like to
On 06/29/2013 09:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I haven't read this entire thread, but the bits I have read lead me to
think that Matt has tangled himself up in a total confused mess. It's
*not this hard* to write status messages to a log file, the log module
does all the work. Can anyone w
On 06/30/2013 12:10 AM, Phil wrote:
On 30/06/13 11:41, Dave Angel wrote:
Thank you Dave, Matthew and Steven for taking the time to reply. All
hints are greatly appreciated.
I'm attempting to access the GUI widgets. The buttonClicked slot does
what I want but I'd like to access t
On 07/01/2013 05:58 AM, John Steedman wrote:
Good morning all,
A question that I am unsure about. I THINK I have the basics, but I am not
sure and remain curious.
1. What does this mean?
if my_object in my_sequence:
...
We can be sure what 'if' and 'in' mean, but not the other two items.
On 07/01/2013 12:26 PM, jhame...@medford.k12.ma.us wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone tell me how to remove myself from this mailing list? When I
click on unsubscribe my browser displays a message that I can not access
the unsubscribe url or server because my IP is on a blacklist at
Spamhaus. I am writing
On 07/01/2013 04:41 PM, Jack Little wrote:
In my concept, when the player buys a boost, their karma (a global) is
multiplied by 25% when added to. How would I do this?
Making a changeable global is almost certainly a mistake.
But to multiply by 25%, you simply divide by 4.
karma /= 4
--
On 07/03/2013 02:17 PM, Andre' Walker-Loud wrote:
Hi All,
I wrote some code that is running out of memory.
And you know this how? What OS are you using, and specifically how is
it telling you that you've run out of memory? And while you're at it,
what version of Python? And are the OS and
On 07/03/2013 03:51 PM, bja...@jamesgang.dyndns.org wrote:
I've written my first program to take a given directory and look in all
directories below it for duplicate files (duplicate being defined as
having the same MD5 hash, which I know isn't a perfect solution, but for
what I'm doing is good e
On 06/27/2013 11:16 AM, Jack Little wrote:
Is there a way to save a players progress in a game using python without any
modules
Jack
If you organize the game in such a way that a relatively few variables
holds the state, then you can write those variables to a file, and when
restarting the
On 07/06/2013 05:38 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
I reworked my numbers_to_name program so I can actually follow the logic.
Since I think the best way to learn is to follow something through to
completion, I'll put it online so I learn how to do that. But naturally,
lest I look dumb, I'd appreciate criti
On 07/06/2013 06:34 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 07/06/2013 05:38 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
I reworked my numbers_to_name program so I can actually follow the logic.
Since I think the best way to learn is to follow something through to
completion, I'll put it online so I learn how to do that
On 07/06/2013 09:18 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 6 July 2013 18:01, ALAN GAULD wrote:
If its structured use a parser for preference. (HTML, XML or pyparser etc
for
proprietary type stuff
Ah, I see - don't bother with a parser unless you have a lot of structure.
BTW, I extracted the main funct
On 07/06/2013 10:40 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 6 July 2013 19:09, Dave Angel wrote:
If you'd like, I'll post my full version, changed as little as possible from
That would be helpful. The corrections are already four times the size
of the program, and at least thr
On 07/07/2013 01:30 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 07/06/2013 10:40 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 6 July 2013 19:09, Dave Angel wrote:
If you'd like, I'll post my full version, changed as little as
possible from
That would be helpful. The corrections are already four time
On 07/07/2013 02:47 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 6 July 2013 22:52, Dave Angel wrote:
The
other author does not use hyphens or commas in the words. He ends each
string with a blank. And he neglected to handle zero.
He also is buggy beyond a nonillion-1.
I found yet another implementation
On 07/07/2013 06:40 PM, Jack Little wrote:
When the player of my game fire his/her cannon, it is supposed to get rid of
some of the enemy's health. It does not. I have no clue what the error is, so I
need help. Here is the Python Shell output:
fire cannon 1
Fired!
Enemy health= 75
They fired
On 07/08/2013 01:57 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 8 July 2013 00:12, Steven D'Apranocatching ArithmeticError
further on), please use a custom exception
Well, an Arithmetic Error was better than bubbling up to a totally general
one. I'm not sure how do custom error code. Short example, please ;')
On 07/08/2013 04:51 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
haha, I hadn't even noticed the 'speling eror'. I was just thinking 'what the
heck is a desert spoon'? ;-)
"A dessert spoon is a spoon designed specifically for eating dessert and
sometimes used for soup or cereals."
On the other hand,
On 06/28/2013 07:08 PM, grub...@roadrunner.com wrote:
I don't get why this doesn't work. Its a very small program to read in a group
of numbers. I've attached the the python file and my test file. The test file
just contains one line. The error I get is that it can't convert the string to
a fl
On 07/05/2013 02:37 PM, Amandeep Behl wrote:
and why with sum(one, two) we get an error whereas not with sum((one, two))
?
When replying to a message, your new text should go AFTER the quote.
Putting it first is called top-posting, and it's a Microsoft-introduced
abomination that's not compa
On 07/05/2013 05:10 PM, Ashley Fowler wrote:
This is what I have so far. Can anyone make suggestions or tell me what I need
to correct?
*
*
First thing to correct is the notion that you're due an instant answer.
You get frustrated after 3 minutes, and post a new messa
On 07/08/2013 02:26 AM, Tim Hanson wrote:
In the first Lutz book, I am learning about nested functions.
Here's the book's example demonstrating global scope:
def f1():
x=88
def f2():
print(x)
f2()
f1()
88
But that's not global scope, it's
On 07/06/2013 11:18 PM, bluepresley wrote:
I'm reading the book Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran.
I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding the some of the code from
chapter four (the code for this chapter is available online at
https://github.com/cataska/programming-collect
On 07/08/2013 01:43 AM, Nathan Schlaffer wrote:
Dear Tutor,
I have a Windows 7 Laptop. I installed Python Version 3.3.2 this morning
and it worked fine. Then I tried to run a program someone else wrote (see
below), and Python closed.
What's that mean? HOW did you try to run the other program?
On 07/09/2013 04:04 PM, HRK wrote:
Hello,
I'm pretty new to Python so while I can make some basic stuff work, it doesn't
look particularly pretty. I wanted to find better ways to solve the following
two problems (the current code works, but is clunky.) Any tips or help
appreciated. Thanks!
On 07/09/2013 04:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
Tutor-
Ok newbie to coding here attempting to build controlled web scraper and
have followed several books-tutorials and am failing at step one.
This is the 3.3.1 code I am trying to run..
===
import urllib.request
htmltext = urllib.request.urlopen("ht
On 07/10/2013 03:02 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Boy, is the list busy. Python must have been mentioned on USA today,
or something ;')
Anyway, I was reading the datamodel, and it mentioned imported modules
going out of scope, which seemed odd, since I thought they were global
and never went out, or am
On 07/10/2013 05:05 PM, s...@luo.to wrote:
def printMax(a, b):
if a > b:
print(a, 'is maximum')
elif a == b:
print(a, 'is equal to', b)
else:
print(b, 'is maximum')
printMax(3, 4) # directly give literal values
x = 5
y = 7
printMax(x, y) # give variables as arg
On 07/10/2013 05:16 PM, eryksun wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
Sure enough it did. The question is - does importing into a function
ever make sense? It occurred to me that if you usefrom module
import * , putting it in a function
Can't be done. Locals
On 07/10/2013 11:24 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
I'm aware of
var1, var2 = lines.split()
kind of assignments
How do I get to do
x1..xn = lines.split()
instead of typing out n var names? Is there some pythonic way to map
all the data fields automagically given a starter var?
I have data
On 07/11/2013 08:18 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
Thanks for the detailed explanation below. I've replied below.
On Thu, Jul 11 2013,Dave Angel wrote:
third choice? Put them in a list. Whaddya know, they already are.
So just assign a name to that list. Referencing them is n
On 07/13/2013 01:48 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 13/07/13 16:08, Brett Wunderlich wrote:
commanded by a Button. Once the button is pressed the values in the
fields should result in a calculation - the values should all be numeric
You'll need to convert between strings and numbers, the GUI display
On 07/13/2013 02:29 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Steven D'Aprano
No, actually, it's the opposite of a gotcha. If a module expects to use
truncated division, and *fails* to "from __future__ import division",
that's what it needs to get. If your import would change what the other
module sees, then you c
On 07/13/2013 07:29 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Dave Angel
You still don't understand. If you write a module and I import it, then
other imports BY ME don't affect your module. Whether it's a __future__ one
or not. My import affects my global namespace, not yours. My compile-time
On 07/13/2013 07:45 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 07/13/2013 07:29 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Dave Angel
Where I got confused is I'm importing a module with a manual input, then
renaming the input function to a generator function in my program , so I
can bypass manual input and feed the m
On 07/14/2013 12:37 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 13 July 2013 20:03, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I don't understand that last sentence.
Ah, I can be marvelously unclear. I keep forgetting telepathy only works
on my home planet ;')
You still have done nothing to explain the "last sentence." You
On 07/14/2013 01:02 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 13 July 2013 21:41, eryksun wrote:
A lot of new packages support versions 2.6+, which have the "with"
statement enabled.
So, since I'm using 2.7 I don't need generators or with?
Then all I'm using to be 3.3ish, would be:
from __future__ import
On 07/14/2013 04:27 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 13 July 2013 22:16, Dave Angel wrote:
That's monkey-patching. You're reaching inside the module and modifying
it.
That's interesting. I saw that phrase and wondered what it was. Now I know
;') Actually, I did refactor the
On 07/14/2013 03:28 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 13 July 2013 22:25, Dave Angel wrote:
try:
input = raw_input
except NameError as e:
pass
try:
range = xrange
except NameError as e:
pass
==
Couldn't I just shorten that to:
if int(sys.version[0]) < 3:
On 07/16/2013 09:48 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
This is puzzling me. I have a folder with about 125 movie sound clips,
like "I'll be back," blues brothers theme, oompa-loompas, etc. I play
seven random ones on windows startup, which works fine. But just so I
don't repeat a clip, I delete it from the di
On 07/17/2013 08:00 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
On 17/07/2013 12:13, Karan Goel wrote:
So I want to be good at python (web) development. What all technologies
do I need to know? Git. Linux. Django. webapp2. Heroku?
What else? How proficient should I be in each?
You don't *need* any of those specifi
On 07/17/2013 11:09 AM, wolfrage8...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
I could continue, randomly attacking other aspects of a development
environment. The point is that there are traps everywhere, and beautiful
symmetries everywhere. Learn how to
On 07/10/2013 05:05 PM, s...@luo.to wrote:
This is going a little over my head, please advice, what am I missing in
here?
While you're watching, we could also point out that you posted a message
in html format. There were actually two messages inside there, and many
people will see the
On 07/19/2013 04:00 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
I've got some stock indices data that I plan to plot using matplotlib.
The data is simply date, idx_close_value and my plan is to plot the
last 30 day, 90, 180 day & all time graphs of the indices.
a) I can do the date compu
On 07/20/2013 01:00 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
On Sat, Jul 20 2013,Dave Angel wrote:
These are small,fixed line extracts.
Once you determine the offset in the file for those 180, 90, and 30
day points, it's a simple matter to just seek to one such spot and
process al
On 07/20/2013 06:17 AM, Sunil Tech wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have a list of dictionaries like
world =
[{'continent':'Asia','continent_code':1,'ocean':'Pacific','country':'India','country_code':1,'state':'Kerala',
'state_pin':51},
{'continent':'Asia','continent_code':1,'ocean':'Pacific','coun
On 07/20/2013 08:24 PM, Steve Willoughby wrote:
On 20-Jul-2013, at 16:37, Jim Mooney wrote:
If only Bill Gates hadn't chosen '\', which is awkward to type and
hard to make compatible - but I think he figured his wonderful DOS
would be a Unix-killer, reign supreme, and there would be no
compati
On 07/22/2013 02:27 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Okay, I'm getting there, but this should be translating A umlaut to an old
DOS box character, according to my ASCII table, but instead it's print
small 'u':
def main():
zark = ''
for x in "ÀÄÄÄ":
print(unichr(ord(u'x')-3), end=' ')
re
On 07/23/2013 02:10 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 22 July 2013 21:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
(By the way, you're very naughty. The code you show *cannot possibly
generate the error you claim it generates*. Bad Jim, no biscuit!)
I know. I need a personal github.
git is free, and is usually ins
On 07/23/2013 10:28 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 24/07/13 00:14, Dave Angel wrote:
On 07/23/2013 02:10 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
On 22 July 2013 21:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
(By the way, you're very naughty. The code you show *cannot possibly
generate the error you claim it
On 07/23/2013 08:27 AM, enmce wrote:
Hello!
This is my first post, nice to meet you all!
I`m biology student from Russia, trying to learn python to perform some simple
simulations.
Hello, and welcome.
However, please don't post identical messages on tutor and python-list.
The response you g
On 07/23/2013 03:20 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 23/07/13 18:41, wolfrage8...@gmail.com wrote:
Although I can not say for sure. It appears to me, they are trying to
do a better job at merging from distributed branches
Thanks for the memory jog. Yes i remember reading an interview with
linus when
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